World champion Lewis Hamilton was only sixth fastest as his Mercedes spent a large chunk of the morning session preparing experimental changes to the car for the afternoon. PHOTO: AFP
The Williams driver bettered his previous best time in testing by one minute 23.262 seconds on the ‘super soft’ tyres, but was still well off the time set by Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg on the slower soft tyres on Friday.
Kimi Raikkonen was just over a hundredth of a second behind Massa in his Ferrari as he also ran on the super soft tyres with Sauber's Marcus Ericsson in third.
World champion Lewis Hamilton was only sixth fastest as his Mercedes spent a large chunk of the morning session preparing experimental changes to the car for the afternoon.
There was more positive news for McLaren as test driver Kevin Magnussen, deputising for the absent Fernando Alonso after his crash last weekend, logged another 38 laps and posted the best time set by the MP4-30 in Barcelona over seven days of testing.
Force India's reliability in just their second day in the new VJM08 continued to be impressive as Nico Hulkenberg completed the most mileage before lunch with 76 laps.
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